Feisty + Wireless PC Card

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Jul 16 02:22:32 UTC 2007


cj wrote:

> 
>>
>> Pretty well any wifi card should work with ndiswrapper, but some will
>> work much better with native linux drivers.
>>   
> Well, some do, some dont. mine doesnt ( :( ). the ndiswrapper will see
> and install the drivers, but modprobe wont set it up. i followed the
> instructions given in the wiki when i tried setting up my wireless.

Well, ndiswrapper relies on the network adaptor using NDIS (whatever that
stands for), and while that's Microsoft's "standard", it isn't actually
necessary to use it, so there are always adaptors that aren't going to
work, but it must work for most.
-- 
derek





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